Welcome to the Poker Corridor of Fame: Patrik Antonius.
With a distinguished profession and over $23 million in profession earnings, Antonius embodies every part that the Poker Corridor of Fame stands for, having performed high-stakes poker in opposition to a few of the biggest gamers of his technology and gained the respect of each money sport and event gamers alike.
“Within the trendy period of poker, few have been as daring and fearless as Patrik Antonius,” mentioned Ty Stewart, Govt Director of the World Collection of Poker. “A pressure each on-line and dwell, we’re thrilled to see Patrik’s high-stakes profession acknowledged by legends who’ve added the primary worldwide participant to the Poker Corridor of Fame in plenty of years.”
Well-known for his Full Tilt Poker clashes with Tom “durrrr” Dwan, Phil Ivey and Victor “Isildur1” Blom within the late 2000s, Antonius additionally has 11 recorded dwell event victories together with the 2005 EPT Baden Principal Occasion and the 2024 EPT Monte Carlo €100,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler.
Antonius is the primary European participant to be inducted into the Corridor of Fame for the reason that late David “Devilfish” Ulliott in 2017. He is additionally the primary residing European to be inducted since 2008 when holecard digital camera inventor Henry Orenstein was inducted.
Actually, Antonius is barely the fifth European ever inducted after Nick “The Greek” Dandolos and Edmond Hoyle.
In accordance with the WSOP, Antonius edged “Miami” John Cernuto and Isai Scheinberg within the voting to safe his 2024 nomination.
Antonius Response
“This can be a very large honor to change into a brand new Corridor of Famer,” mentioned Antonius. “Clearly large because of my household and shut associates — simply everybody who has been there for me by way of the nice and the dangerous.
“This has actually been one of many nicest issues for me. I’ve all the time been a scholar of the sport and all the time hoped that poker continues to get larger and higher. And simply take a look at the place we at the moment are. It appears to be like like poker has by no means been pretty much as good as it’s now — we’re breaking data everywhere in the world.”
“The final 24-25 years with poker went fairly quick. I believe I will stick round for a very long time.”
This was solely the second yr that Antonius was nominated, nevertheless it had been 4 years since his first nomination in 2020 — his first yr of eligibility.
“It was sudden at this younger age, however I am nonetheless younger. The final 24-25 years with poker went fairly quick. I believe I will stick round for a very long time. That is my plan — to maintain enjoying the best tournaments and money video games. I’ve all the time had a lot ardour and love for the sport.
“It is so good that so many individuals have discovered poker and are enthusiastic about poker. We are able to all do it collectively. Let’s continue to grow the sport and thanks to everybody who’s supported me and voted for me.”
Patrik Antonius Poker Profession
Initially a promising tennis participant, Antonius suffered a again damage as a youngster earlier than turning to poker. $50 residence video games with associates swiftly was a distinguished poker profession throughout each tournaments and money video games.
Antonius’s poker profession has now spanned over twenty years, from the small Dutch island of Sint Maarten, the place he recorded his first dwell poker money in a $220 Pot-Restrict Omaha event in 2003, to the intense lights of the European Poker Tour and the Triton Poker Collection the place he continues to play at this time.
Antonius recorded his first money on the World Collection of Poker in 2005, months earlier than he famously gained the EPT Baden Principal Occasion, lower than one month after ending third within the EPT Barcelona Principal Occasion.
He rounded out 2005 by ending second within the 5 Diamond World Poker Traditional in Las Vegas for $1,046,470.
Antonius would make common appearances on Poker After Darkish, Poker Million, and Late Evening Poker all through the poker growth within the late 2000s.
In tournaments, a bracelet has to this point eluded him. He got here closest in 2007, ending third for $311,394 within the $10,000 Pot-Restrict Omaha Championship, and final-tabled the WSOP Europe Principal Occasion in Cannes France in 2011.
Antonius loved extra success in Australia, ending second to Phil Ivey within the Aussie Thousands and thousands A$250,000 Problem for A$1,200,000 and ending third within the Aussie Thousands and thousands Principal Occasion the next yr for A$600,000.
Excessive-stakes money video games — each dwell and on-line — have additionally taken a substantial amount of Antonius’ consideration, with the Finn going as far as to say he would not suppose he performs good poker when enjoying at smaller stakes.
He is mentioned that fellow Corridor of Famer Phil Ivey and Viktor “Isildur1” Blom have been among the many prime on-line gamers he is ever confronted, and he is a daily in Bobby’s Room on the Bellagio — at the same time as just lately as this week — enjoying in a few of the greatest blended video games money video games round.
In 2023, Antonius performed out one of many largest ever pot broadcast dwell on a US dwell stream, profitable $1,978,000 in a hand in opposition to Eric Persson on ‘No Gamble, No Future’.
However the attract of tournaments remained. Earlier this yr, Antonius proved that he nonetheless had it after taking down the EPT Monte Carlo €100,000 Tremendous Excessive Curler for €1,967,440.
“I am making an attempt to maintain my sport as excessive degree as doable,” he instructed PokerNews. “I actually take pleasure in enjoying in opposition to the hardest competitors, whether or not money video games or tournaments. The aim is admittedly to maintain enjoying. I wish to, be right here giving interviews within the subsequent ten, 20 years or so. So let’s have a look at if I can sustain with all of the boys.”
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